any SECTION 8. That the treasurer of Delaware county shall not grant Licenses in Dellicense under the twenty-first and twenty-second sections of the act aware county. of April tenth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, entitled "An Act to create a sinking fund, and to provide for the gradual and certain extinguishment of the debt of the Commonwealth," unless the application to him shall be accompanied by the certificate of one of the judges of the Court of Quarter Sessions of said county, setting forth that they approve the granting such license. SECTION 9. That the Court of Quarter Sessions of Blair county is Relative to the hereby authorized and empowered to hear and determine the application tavern license of George Potts, of Blair county, for a tavern license in said county, of Geo. Potts, as fully and effectually as though notice had been previously given by of Blair county. publication in pursuance of the first section of an act relating to tavern licenses, passed the twenty-ninth day of March, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one. APPROVED-The twenty-sixth day of March, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 184. AN ACT To incorporate the Wattsburg and State Line Plank Road Company, to change the name of Wirtz McMicken Johnson to Wirtz McMicken, relative to the estates of Jane Morehead, of Indiana county, a lunatic, and of John Stewart Riddle, deceased, to authorize John F. Means and Simon Stevens to establish a ferry over the Susquehanna river, in Bradford county, and to authorize Alvin H. Parker, trustee, to sell certain real estate in the city of Philadelphia. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That William Sanborn, Azro Elliott, James Moore, B. F. Town, Lyman Rob- Commissioners. inson, Heman James, J. T. Énsworth, and A. W. Reed, be, and they are hereby appoited commissioners to open books, receive subscriptions, and organize a company by the name, style, and title, of "The Watts burg and State Line Plank Road Company," with power to construct a Style. J. B. Foote, in Venango township, Erie county, to the west end of Location. route, as the stockholders may determine upon, subject to all the pro- Subject to provisions and restrictions of "an act regulating turnpike and plank road visions of cercompanies," passed the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand tain act, Capital stock. Commence eight hundred and forty-nine, and the several supplements thereto, except that portion of the thirteenth section of said act relating to tolls, which discriminates in favor of wheels of the breadth of four inches and upwards; and the company hereby incorporated shall have power to regulate their tolls within the limits prescribed by the said thirteenth section, without reference to the width of wheels in any case. SECTION 2. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of two hundred and fifty shares, at twenty-five dollars per share: Provided, That said company may from time to time, by a vote of the stockholders at a meeting called for the purpose, increase their capital stock so much as in their opinion may be necessary to complete the road, and to carry out the true intent and meaning of this act. SECTION 3. That if said company shall not commence the construcment and com- tion of their road within three years after the granting of this act, and pletion of road. complete the same within seven years thereafter, this act shall be null and void, except so far as the same may be necessary to wind up the affairs and pay the debts of said company. Name of Wirtz SECTION 4. That the name of Wirtz McMicken Johnson, of the city McMiken John- of Philadelphia, be, and it is hereby changed to that of Wirtz Mcson changed. Micken, and that he shall henceforth be called and be known by the name of "Wirtz McMicken," and by that name he shall sue and be sued, grant, take, have, and inherit any estate, real or personal, and do all other legal act or acts as effectually, to all intents and purposes, as he could have done by his former name-as if no change had been made therein by virtue of this act. Certain powers committee of of Indiana county, a lunatic. SECTION 5. That the committee of Jane Moorhead, of the county of granted to the Indiana, a lunatic, be, and he is hereby authorized and empowered to release and discharge the land of Robert McLanahan, situated in White Jane Moorhead township, in said county, from the now existing lien and charge upon the same, for the maintenance of the said Jane Moorhead: Provided, That before any such release be executed, the maintenance of the said lunatic shall have been charged upon other real estate in said county, of a value clearly sufficient for that purpose: And provided further, That no proceedings had under this section shall be deemed valid unless approved of by the Court of Common Pleas of said county. Guardian of the authorized to sell certain real estate. SECTION 6. That the guardian or guardians of the minor child of minor child of John S. Riddle, deceased, are hereby authorized and empowered to sell, John S. Riddle, by public or private sale, the real estate late of the said John Stewart Riddle, deceased, within this Commonwealth, in lots and tracts as to the said guardian or guardians shall seem best, and upon the approval of such sale or sales by the Orphans' Court of Crawford county, to make title thereof to the purchaser or purchasers for such interest and estate as the said minor child hath therein: Provided, That before such sale or sales the guardian or guardians shall file in the office of the clerk of the Orphans' Court of the county of Crawford aforesaid, a bond with sufficient security to be approved of by the said court, conditioned for the faithful appropriation of the proceeds of such sale or sales for the use of the said minor child: And provided further, That the said court shall approve of and confirm said sale or sales. authorized to Acting adminis- SECTION 7. That the acting administrator or administrators, or either, trators of John of the said John Stewart Riddle, are hereby authorized and empowered Stewart Riddle to execute and deliver all such deeds and conveyances as may be neexecute deeds, cessary for the purpose of fulfilling all such contracts for the sale of any bonds as may have been entered into by him in his lifetime with any person or persons whatsoever, and upon the approval of and acknowledgment in said Orphans' Court of the county of Crawford aforesaid, before the judges thereof, of all such deeds, they shall have the same &c. force and effect as if an order had been made by the Orphans' Court authorizing and directing the same; and further, the said administrator or administrators are hereby authorized and empowered to redeem any portion of the real estate aforesaid, late of the said John Stewart Riddle, deceased, which has been or may be sold for taxes within this Commonwealth, the time for the redemption of which shall not have expired under the existing laws relative to such sales for taxes, and may from time to time pay or cause to be paid all such taxes as have been or may be legally assessed upon such real estate aforesaid, and for all moneys so as aforesaid disbursed shall be entitled to charge and receive a credit therefor in the settlement of their administration account. SECTION 8. That the treasurer of the county of Crawford is hereby Treasurer of authorized and required to execute and deliver to said administrator or Crawford counadministrators, or either of them, deeds of conveyance in trust and for ty authorized to the use of the said minor child of the said John Stewart Riddle, de- execute deeds teased, for all such land as may have been purchased by him at the in trust, &c. late tax sales in and for said county upon which the purchase money, or so much as is required by law, has been paid into the treasury of said county, upon the execution and delivery by said administrator or administrators, or either of them, of surplus bonds conditioned and in the form required by the existing laws of this Commonwealth relative to sales for taxes of unseated lands, which said bonds shall have no other or greater effect than if they had been executed and delivered by the said John Stewart Riddle in his lifetime; and the said lands shall be held in trust and for the use of the said minor child, and subject to the dispositions and provisions of the sixth section of this act. SECTION 9. That John F. Means and Simon Stevens, their heirs John F. Means and assigns, shall have the right and privilege, at their own expense, and Simon Steto make good and convenient landings on the east and west side of the vens authorized Susquehanna river, at and opposite a place called Bennett's Eddy, in said landings as a as a public ferry. to establish a ferry. SECTION 10. That the said John F. Means and Simon Stevens, their Landings and and repair, fit for the transportation and passage of travellers, teams, in good repair, heirs and assigns, shall keep the said landings and ferry in good order ferry to be kept boats and other crafts, and competent and careful ferrymen, who shall and carriages of all description; and shall keep good and substantial &c. constantly, as occasion may require, attend for the purpose of carrying passengers, teams, and carriages across said river with all reasonable diligence and care. SECTION 11. That the said John F. Means and Simon Stevens, their, heirs and assigns, as a remuneration for keeping up and in good repair Tolls. the said landings and ferry as aforesaid, shall receive such tolls for carrying persons, teams, carriages, horses and other animals, as may be prescribed by the Court of Quarter Sessions of Bradford county, or as are received by other ferries of like import crossing the said river, and to extend a rope or wire across the river if they may deem it advisable to facilitate crossing: Provided, That the rope or wire shall not be so extended as to interfere with or obstruct the ascending or descending navigation of said river; and that nothing in this act contained shall riages as aforesaid, on land belonging to any other person or persons re so construed as to receive or discharge any travellers, cattle, or carwithout 80 cut, or break, or in any way injure or destroy any ropes, wire, or boats, juries. SECTION 12. That if any person or persons shall wilfully pull down, Penalty for in 17 Trustee of Elizabeth Mer- ized to sell cer or other property belonging to the said ferry, he, she, or they so offending, shall each of them forfeit and pay to the said J. F. Means and Simon Stevens, their heirs and assigns, the sum of twenty dollars, in addition to all damages sustained by the said J. F. Means and Simon Stevens, their heirs and assigns, to be recovered as debts of like amount are by law recoverable. SECTION 13. That Alvin H. Parker, trustee of the estate of Elizabeth Mercer wife of Robert Mercer, Martha Mercer, and Jane Dalzell Parker, be, and he is hereby authorized and empowered to grant, bargain, sell, and convey unto Julius Fink, of the city of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, warm-air furnace and cooking-range Parker, author- manufacturer, and unto his heirs and assigns, all the estate, right, title, tain real estate. interest, property, claim, and demand whatsoever, of them the said Elizabeth Mercer, Martha Mercer, and Jane Dalzell Parker, either at law or in equity, or otherwise howsoever, of and in all that certain lot, strip, or piece of ground, situate on the east side of Juniper street, between Chestnut and Diamond streets, in the city of Philadelphia, beginning at the distance of ninety-six feet eight inches southward from the south side of said Chestnut street, containing in front or breadth on said Juniper street three feet four inches, more or less, and extending in length or depth eastward forty feet; bounded on the north partly by other ground of the said Julius Fink, and on the west by Juniper street aforesaid, together with all and singular_the appurtenances whatsoever thereunto belonging; and to make, execute, acknowledge, and deliver to the said Julius Fink, his heirs and assigns, a good and sufficient deed, conveyance, and assurance in the law for the same. JOHN CESSNA, Speaker of the House of Representatives. BENJAMIN MATTHIAS, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-The twenty-fifth day of March, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. WM. F. JOHNSTON. No. 184. A SUPPLEMENT To an act entitled "An Act for the relief of Barbara Patrick, widow of Robert Patrick, a soldier ef the revolutionary war, and to incorporate the Conemaugh and Indiana Plank Road Company, and for other purposes," approved the sixth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the president and managers of the said Conemaugh and Indiana Plank Conemaughand Road Company be, and they are hereby authorized to extend the said Indiana Plank road from its present terminus on the right bank of the Conemaugh Road Company river, in the county of Indiana, across the said river as far as may authorized to be extend their necessary to connect the said road with the Pennsylvania railroad in road and erect a the county of Westmoreland; and they are hereby further authorized bridge. and empowered to erect and construct a bridge across the said river at the place where the said road may cross the same: Provided, That the said bridge shall not be within a distance of three miles by the course of said river from any other bridge over the same, which has been erected by any company incorporated by the laws of this Commonwealth SECTION 2. That the said president and managers shall have the same power and authority to enter upon land and take materials necessary for the construction of the said bridge as has been granted to them for the purpose of making the said road, and subject to the same limitations and restrictions. Powers. Said bridge to vest in said SECTION 3. That when the said bridge is completed as aforesaid, the property in the same and its appurtenances shall be vested in the said Conemaugh and Indiana Plank Road Company and their successors for- plank road comever; and it shall and may be lawful for the said company and their pany. successors to erect a gate or gates, and such buildings as they may deem necessary for the residence of a toll collector, and to demand and receive toll from travellers and others at said bridge, agreeably to the rates prescribed and fixed in an act of the General Assembly entitled "An Act to authorize the Governor to incorporate a company to erect a bridge over the Conemaugh river at or near Centreville, in the county of Indiana, and for other purposes," approved the twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight: Provided, That all persons who are or shall be exempt by law from payment of toll on the said plank road shall not be subject to toll for passing over the said bridge. SECTION 4. That the several penalties prescribed in the aforemen- Penalties. tioned act of Assembly to incorporate a company to erect a bridge at or near Centreville, for persons crossing said bridge with a horse or other animal faster than a walk, and for any gate-keeper of said company demanding and collecting excessive toll for passing said bridge, and the manner and form of recovering the same, shall exist and apply in full force to the bridge authorized to be erected by this act. Provisions of SECTION 5. That the provisions of the thirteenth and fourteenth sections of an act of Assembly entitled "An Act to incorporate a com- certain act expany to erect a bridge over the river Schuylkill at or near Phoenixville, tended to said in the county of Chester," approved the fifteenth day of March, one company. thousand eight hundred and forty-four, be, and the same are hereby extended and made to apply to the bridge authorized to be erected by this act. SECTION 6. That if the aforesaid Conemaugh and Indiana Plank CommenceRoad Company shall not complete the construction of the said bridge ment and comwithin nine years from and after the sixth day of May, one thousand pletion of eight hundred and fifty-one, this act, so far as it relates to said bridge, bridge. shall become null and void. SECTION 7. That the commissioners of the county of Indiana be, Commissioners and they are hereby authorized and required to appropriate all moneys of Indiana counaccruing to said county from fines and forfeited recognizances within ty required to the term of two years from and after the passage of this act, to the appropriate cerpurchase of stock in said company; and the said company shall have tain moneys to and enjoy all the rights and privileges of other stockholders in said stock in said company, to be exercised by and through the said commissioners. the purchase of company. |